"Hypothesis: The woke crack up of culture and institutions that started in ~2013 was driven in significant part by the democratization of good taste that happened in the 2010s."

"However by the 2010s every small city had multiple craft breweries, plenty of tikka masala, and anyone could have instant access to any movie or music with the click of a mouse. Even getting ahold of an obscure old camera or record could be done with a click. Therefore sophisticated taste in food, music, films, etc. was no longer an effective cultural separator between someone who lived in Greenpoint or U Street and someone who lived in Tulsa or Jacksonville."